[Footnote 665: Hazlitt's MONTAIGNE, _Journey into Italy._--T.] [Footnote 666: Philippe Camille Marcelin Comte de Tournon (1778-1833), Prefect of Rome under the Empire (1809-1814), a peer of France under the Restoration (1824) and author of _Études statistiques sur Rome et les États romains_ (1831).--T.] [Footnote 667: Louis Simond (1767-1831), author of a _Voyage d'un Français en Angleterre_ (1810-1811), _Voyage en Italie et en Sicilie_ (1827-1828), etc. Simond ended by settling at Geneva and being naturalized a Swiss.--T.] [Footnote 668: _Cf._ Monsignore NICOLA MARIA NICOLAÏ, _Memorie, leggi ed osservazioni sulle campagne e sull' annona di Roma_ (Rome, 1803), at that time accepted as the leading authority on economic matters.--B.] [Footnote 669: Villemain was then preparing his History of Gregory VII., a work which was celebrated before its appearance and fell into oblivion so soon as it had appeared, which was not until 1873, three years after the author's death.--B.] [Footnote 670: Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry (1795-1856), a noted French historian. In 1826, he became completely broken down in health, and was left blind and paralyzed. The remainder of his work was done through the medium of secretaries. With their help he published his _Dix ans d'études historiques_ (1834), his _Récits des temps mérovingiens_ (1840), and an _Essai sur l'histoire de la formation et du progrès du tiers-état_ ( 1853). His famous _Histoire de la conquête de l'Angleterre par les Normands_ had been published in 1825.--T.] [Footnote 671: Thanks to God, M. Thierry has been restored to life and has resumed his fine and important work with renewed strength; he works at night, but like the chrysalis: La nymphe s'enferme avec joie Dans ce tombeau d'or et de soie Qui la dérobe à tous les yeux. --_Author's Note._ "The nymph herself doth gladly hide That tomb of gold and silk inside Which conceals her from every eye."--T. ] [Footnote 672: The Russians took Varna on the 11th of October 1828.--B.] [Footnote 673: Giovanni Torlonia, Duca di Bracciano (_d._ 1829), the famous Roman banker, created Duca di Bracciano and a Roman prince, in 1809, by Pope Pius VII.--T.] [Footnote 674: The Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi was signed between Russia and Turkey on the 8th of June 1833 and was a treaty of defensive and offensive alliance concluded for eight years. A secret clause eventually closed the Dardanelles to the European Powers, while leaving both that passage and the Bosphorus open to Russia and Russia alone.--B.]